Product Sighting: Mini Bags of Almonds (100 calories)
I often recomend nuts as a healthy snack. However portion control is a problem for many people. How many of you city girls have you found your hand glued to the bowl of nuts at the bar as you are sipping on your cosmo? Or you city guys going through a can of nuts while watching the game?
Nuts are a great heart healthy snack, however they are quite high in calories. Check out my post Do You Go Nuts Over Nuts? for calorie info. For those you who are watching your weight and don’t have the discipline to control your portion of nuts, I have found the answer for you - 100 calorie packs of almonds. I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with 100 calorie pack of something healthy…rather than all the cookies and other processed snacks. These mini bags of nuts were 
spotted in a supermarket in NYC. Check your local store to see if you can find them. If not, you can buy them online at this link.
Benefits of having nuts for a snack
1. Nuts, especially almonds, have been shown in many studies to help lower risk of heart disease by several different mechanisms.
2. Nuts have been shown to lower risk of diabetes.
3. While we know that nuts are high in calories, they have actually been shown to promote weight loss. No, this doesn’t mean that you can down a can of nuts and expect the pounds to drop off. The greater weight loss occured when an equal amount of calories from nuts were substituted for carbohydrate.
4. For those of you following lower glycemic diets, research has shown that eating almonds along with a high glycemic index food significantly lowers the glycemic index of the meal and lessens the rise in blood sugar after eating.
5. Nuts contain heart healthy monounsaturated fats, Vitamin E, magnesium and potassium.
6. Nuts are great snacks for carb cravers as they help to stabilize blood sugar.
Enjoy!
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June 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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